Dallas Legal Hospice

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
752294537
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Dallas, TX, USA
Phone
2145216622
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospices

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$327,810
Expenses
$356,652
Assets
$275,397
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PATRICK HANCOCK BOARD CHAIR (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • PATRICK HANCOCK BOARD CHAIR (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • JONATHAN MABRA (BOARD VICE CHAIR)
  • DYLAN STONE BOARD TREASURER (FINANCE COMMITTEE CHAIR)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We provide free legal assistance to residents of dallas certain surrounding counties who cannot afford an attorney, are HIV positive, have either AIDS or a terminal illness have legal issues relating to or impacted by their health, including estate planning, insurance, employment, housing, credit, public benefits, family law matters.

What it reported doing in 2025

During 2025 our community impact of providing quality pro bono legal services to low-income persons diagnosed with terminal illness or HIV included providing service to 199 people. In addition to our ongoing cases, we opened a total of 175 new cases, including 80 Public Benefits cases, 37 Estate Planning cases, 39 Housing cases, 9 Employment cases, 5 Individual Rights cases, and 5 Insurance cases. We served the following counties in Texas Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Grayson, Hunt, Kaufman, Parker, Rockwall and Tarrant. Our current client demographics are 67 male, 29 female and 4 transgender. The ethnicity of our clients is 50 African-American, 29 Caucasian, 18 Hispanic, and 3 other Asian, Native American. The age range of our clients is 1 ages 24 and under, 35 ages 25 - 44, and 64 ages 45 and up.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 62% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 86
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 92%; rating input score 92
  • Program expense ratio: 84.5%; rating input score 84
  • Fundraising efficiency: $29.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -8.8%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 92% of revenue deployed · 84.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $301K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.